Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

Sea Organ

Nikola Bašić

Zadar, Croatia

2005

This architectural construction utilizes hidden chambers and openings to create piping sounds driven entirely by the movements of water and tides

sight

There is something very provocative about steps which disappear into water. Do they lead to something now submerged and lost? Do they invite the visitor to descend into the waves? These beautifully shaped flights invite speculation and also formalize this point of land at it's connection with the water.

"According to Meriam-Webster, perception is "awareness of the elements in the environment through physical sensation." The American Heritage Dictionary calls it "recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory.""- John M. Henshaw, 2012, A Tour Of The Senses